Word: speciesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The higher the price, and the better the quality, the more they are buying. Furs and jewels are selling as if buyers thought minks were becoming an endangered species and South Africa's mines were giving out. Reports John Eyler, merchandising manager for Oregon's Meier and Frank department stores...
For many scientists, there were even more sweeping ramifications. They noted that in-vitro fertilization techniques may give researchers an important new laboratory tool for devising ways of coping with genetic diseases, testing new methods of contraception and, perhaps most important of all, studying close up one of nature's...
The U.S. Sixth Army has a new life-and-death assignment: guarding what may be the most imperiled of the more than 2,000 American plants on the endangered species list. The last-known Arctostaphylos hookeri ravenii, commonly called the Presidio Manzanita, is located on a hillside overlooking the Pacific...
The bearer of these tidings is A. transmontanus, the big Pacific sturgeon. A sister under the skin to the Black Sea species, it runs naturally up California's Sacramento River. (In the 19th century, sturgeon were so plentiful in East Coast rivers that the U.S. exported vast quantities of...
But who can be sure? As an experienced journalist who has contributed to The New Yorker for more than 50 years, Hahn balances her enthusiasms for the unknown with a reverence for facts and, when necessary, the lack of them. "Though total silence still holds between the two species," she...